WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Delhi The best parts of my visits every fall to India are the hard, but necessary discussions, with organizers about work plans for the coming year, especially the long difficult parts where we try to create adaptations of organizing methods with cultural concerns and deep set community practices. After three days of discussion we seem …
Vancouver The board of ACORN Canada hunkered down at the Arundel Hotel next to the office to review both plans for the coming year and assess where the organization stood right now on a number of fronts. Lengthy discussion also centered on ACORN Canada’s leadership role in Community Organizations International and what it took to …
Rome I should have suspected that being without internet and simply depending on my Blackberry while in Sicily was still a dangerous thing to do, and sure enough as I was being driven to the Catania airport I got a message from a reporter for the Washington Times named Amanda Carpenter asking about ACORN International’s …